When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A music concert by Peaches in Brussels, Belgium.1499 (+) 224th Pope Pius IV originally Gian Angelo De Medici, is born in Milan, Italy.1596 (+) Philosopher René Descartes is born in La Haye en Touraine now Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France.1675 (+) 247th Pope Benedictus XIV originally Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, is born in Bologna, Italy.1727 (-) Scientist Isaac Newton dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in London, Kensington, United Kingdom.1837 (-) Romantic painter John Constable dies of indigestion at the age of 60 in Hampstead, United Kingdom.1878 (+) First Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World Jack John Arthur Johnson aka ‘Li’l Artha aka The Galveston Giant, is born in Galveston, Texas, USA.1916 (-) Black Jeff Brown is lynched for bumping into a white woman in Cedar Bluff, Missouri, USA.1926 (+) Writer John Robert Fowles known from The Collector, is born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom.1932 (x) 24-year-old Writer and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach marries Henriette Hoffmann in München, Den Alten Peter, Germany.1933 (+) Serial Killer Donald Gaskins aka Pee Wee, is born in Leo, South Carolina, USA.1935 (+) Musician Herb Alpert is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1935 (+) Actor Richard Chamberlain is born in Beverly Hills, California, USA.1953 (x) 55-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is arrested, posing as John Waddington in London, near Putney Bridge, United Kingdom.1962 (-) Klaus Jung is abducted and killed by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 18 in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1969 (x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Barrotean, Mexico.1970 (x) 62-year-old German ambassador Karl Maria von Spreti is kidnapped by FAR guerillas in Guatemala City, Guatemala.1970 (x) Nine members of the Terrorist group Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 wielding Samurai swords and carrying bombs in Tokyo International Airport, Japan.After releasing the hostages they flew to Pyongyang's Mirim Airport, where they surrendered to North Korean authorities, who offered the whole group asylum.1971 (x) 27-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley is sentenced to life imprisonment of hard labour for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.1980 (-) Olympic legend Jesse James Cleveland Owens dies of lung cancer at the age of 66 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.1984 (-) Murderer Ronald Clark O’Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.He killed his son Timothy on Halloween, 1974 with a cyanide-laced Giant-sized Pixy Stix, in order to claim $20,000 in life insurance.1986 (x) 166 Die in Mexicana de Aviacion Boeing 727 crash in Sierra Madre.1994 (-) Murderer Freddie Webb is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1995 (-) Singer Selena originally Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka Queen of Tejano Music, is shot dead by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club at the age of 23 in Corpus Christi, Days Inn hotel, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Serial Killer Daniel Remeta is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Florida, USA.1999 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Sipho Agmatir Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper, is sentenced to 506 years imprisonment in Durban, South Africa.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The ghost of the NICC at the opening of an artists' studio complex in Deurne, Belgium.1746 (+) Artist Francisco Goya originally Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes de todos los santos difuntos, is born in San Francisco, Aragon, Spain.1807 (-) Murderer George Allen is executed by hanging in Stafford Gaol, United Kingdom.1811 (+) Chemist and inventor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen known from the Bunsen Burner, is born in Göttingen, Germany.1844 (+) Writer Paul Marie Verlaine is born in Metz, France.1853 (+) Artist Vincent Van Gogh is born in Groot Zundert, the Netherlands.1883 (-) Murderess Emeline Meaker is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, USA.1894 (+) Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin is born in Dilialevo, Russia.1905 (+) British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint is born in Clayton, Bradford, United Kingdom.1908 (-) Murderer Chester Gillette aka An American Tragedy, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 24 in Auburn, Texas, USA.1912 (-) Writer Karl Friedrich May known from Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, dies at the age of 70 in Radebeul, Germany.1913 (+) Musician Frankie Laine originally Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1925 (-) Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, dies at the age of 64 in Dornach, Switzerland.1930 (-) Sybilla Wil is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 29 in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.She survived.1931 (+) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin is born in Bobroye, Kursk, USSR.1937 (+) Actor Warren Beatty is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1943 (-) Murderer William Hedden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.1945 (+) Musician Eric Patrick Clapton aka Slowhand, is born in Ripley, Surrey, United Kingdom.1963 (x) 69-year-old Murderer Mathias Kindlinger aka The Austrian Bluebeard, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the murder of his 5 wives and girlfriends in Vienna, Austria.1970 (x) The Manson Family members Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and leader Charles Manson are sentenced to death in Los Angeles, California, USA.1975 (x) The entire Ruppert family are shot dead by 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert in Hamilton, 635 Minor Avenue, Ohio, USA.The victims are 65-year-old Charity, 42-year-old Leonard, 38-year-old Alma, 17-year-old Leonard Jr., 16-year-old Michael, 15-year-old Thomas, 13-year-old Carol, 12-year-old Ann, 11-year-old David, 9-year-old Teresa and 4-year-old John.1981 (-) Ronald Reagan is attacked by John Hinckley aka The Jodie Foster Lover Boy, at the age of 70 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1986 (-) Actor James Francis Cagney dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, USA.1998 (-) Murderess Judy Buenoano is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Trinidad.1999 (-) Triple murderer Robert Excell White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Murderer William D. Wickline is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Visiting unused underground spaces of Central Station for an art project in Brussels, Belgium.1683 (-) Arsonist Yaoya Oshichi is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 16 in Suzugamori, Japan.She had hoped to meet Ikuta Shonosuke, a boy she fell in love with, again by starting a fire.1790 (+) 10th president of the USA John Tyler is born in Greenway, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.1889 (x) 28-year-old Murderer William Kemmler aka John Hurt, kills his wife Tilly Ziegler with a hatchet in New York, USA.He was sentenced to death and will be the first man to be executed by use of the electric chair.1891 (-) Artist Georges Seurat dies of meningitis at the age of 31 in Paris, France.1901 (-) Family-murderer Franz Theodore Wallert is executed by hanging in Gaylord, Minnesota, USA.1912 (-) Explorer Robert Falcon Scott is lost in a snowstorm at the age of 43 in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.1917 (-) Murderer Leo O’Donnel is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.1922 (+) Victim of John Reginald Christie, of 10 Rillington Place, Ruth Marguerite Christine Fuerst is born in Vienna, Austria.1934 (+) Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert is born in Ohio, USA.1939 (+) Actor Terence Hill originally Mario Girotti, is born in Venice, Italy.1944 (+) Singer, songwriter and environmentalist Terry Jacks known from Seasons in the Sun, is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.1949 (+) Murderer John Arthur Spenkelink is born in Le Mars, Iowa, USA.1951 (x) 32-year-old American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage in New York, New York, USA.1951 (x) 35-year-old American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage in New York, New York, USA.1954 (+) Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.1959 (+) Mentally deranged murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is born in Arkansas, USA.1961 (-) Murderer Jack Day is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Bedford, United Kingdom.1963 (-) Carola Hannwacker is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.Her son Helmut is also shot in the same event.1973 (x) The last US-soldier, Max Bielke leaves the battlefield in Vietnam.1974 (x) Start of the trial against 46-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, who is accused of strangling 15 and attacking 6 women in Katowice, Poland.1975 (-) Keith Crotwell is poisoned and mutilated by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Long Beach Marina, California, USA.1978 (x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries 21-year-old Tai-Fun Fanny Leung in Los Angeles, California, USA.1982 (-) Composer Carl Orff dies at the age of 86 in München, Germany.1983 (-) Jacqueline Croiset is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 20 in Amiens, France.She survived.1984 (-) Sheryl Bonaventura is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 18 in Grand Junction, Mesa Mall, USA.1985 (-) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, commits suicide due to a depression after being harrassed for years by the Belgian tax-services at the age of 51 in Belgium.She committed suicide together with her friend Annie Pechler.1990 (-) Montenesdro is attacked by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Joseph O’Dell is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.Hours before his execution he marries law-student Lori Urs. After his death his body is shipped to Palermo, Italy where he is buried as a local hero, presumed innocent.2003 (-) Physician Carlo Urbani known for first identifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome aka SARS, dies of SARS at the age of 46 in Bangkok, Thailand.2006 (-) Murderer Kevin Kincy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Murderer Roy Pippin is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The young Monsieur -now Messieurs- Delmotte at an event at Galerie Nadja Vilenne in Liège, Belgium.1584 (-) Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible, dies of mercury poisoning at the age of 53 in Moscow, USSR.1849 (-) Priest and botanist Stephan L. Endlicher dies at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.He formulated a major system of plant classification.1868 (+) Writer Maxim Alexey Maksimowitsch Peshkow Gorky is born in Nizhni now Gorky, Novgorod, Russia.1881 (-) Composer Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky dies of a seizure at the age of 42 in St. Petersburg, Russia.1920 (+) Actor Dirk Bogarde is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.1924 (+) Writer Gerhart Fritsch is born in Vienna, Austria.1941 (-) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom."I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work"1942 (+) Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, is born in Leutewitz, Germany.1943 (-) Composer Sergey Vassiljewitsch Rachmaninov dies at the age of 70 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.1953 (+) PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is born in Hadath, Lebanon.1954 (+) Psychotic Murderer and rapist Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore, is born in Virginia, USA.1958 (+) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA."I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced."1968 (+) Historian and author Iris Chang is born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.1969 (-) 34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1972 (-) Linda Ohlig is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Half Moon Bay, California, USA.1977 (-) Sylvia Lauterbach is beaten to death by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 23 in Mainz, Germany.1979 (x) The cooling-system of a nuclear plant fails and an explosion is prevented on the limit in Harrisburg, USA.1980 (-) Marsha Weatter is presumably assaulted and shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 19 in Spokane, Washington, USA.1982 (-) Composer Carl Orff dies at the age of 86 in München, Germany.1985 (-) Artist Marc Chagall originally Moishe Shagal, dies at the age of 97 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.1994 (-) Writer Eugene Ionesco dies at the age of 84 in Paris, France.2007 (-) Murderer Vin Gutierrez is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Helping out Isabel with making a cast of her hands for an architecture school project in Borgerhout, Belgium.1309 (x) 45-year-old Pope Clementius V originally Raymond Bertrand de Got, excommunicates the entire population of Venice in Rome, Italy.1845 (+) Scientist William Konrad Röntgen is born in Lennep, Germany.1863 (+) Automobile pioneer Henry Frederick Royce is born in Alwalton, United Kingdom.1878 (-) Composer Dobri Voynikov dies at the age of 44 in the USSR.1886 (+) Architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe is born in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1899 (+) Actress Gloria May Josephine Swanson is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1910 (x) 312 Die in barn dance fire in Ököritófülpös, Hungary.1960 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 14-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.1963 (+) Filmmaker Quentin Jerome Tarantino is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.1968 (-) Cosmonaut and the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin dies in a MiG-15UTI jet crash at the age of 34 in Kirzhach, Russia.1969 (-) Karen Spinker is sexually assaulted, strangled and one breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.He used the cut-off breast as a paper-weight.1972 (-) Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher dies at the age of 73 in Laren, Rosa Spier home, the Netherlands.1977 (-) Child-murderer Al Marjek is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Damascus, Syria.1980 (x) 123 Die in Alexander Kielland oilplatform capsizing in Ekofisk, the North Sea.1984 (-) An unidentified girlis abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, in Tampa, Ponderosa Street, Florida, USA.1985 (-) Vincent Zazzara is stabbed, shot dead and mutilated by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, San Gabriel, California, USA.2000 (-) Musician Ian Dury dies of colorectal cancer at the age of 57 in Upminster, United Kingdom.2001 (-) Murderer Robert Lee Massie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.While on parole for a murder he committed in 1965, he robbed a liquor store and shot two employees, killing one.2002 (-) Filmmaker Billy Wilder dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.2006 (-) Serial Killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, dies of skin cancer at the age of 58 in Kingston Regional Hospital, Ontario, Canada.2007 (-) Murderer Stephen Netheny is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Reconstruction works in our ex-small-bathroom now spacious kitchen in Borgerhout, Belgium.1814 (-) Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin dies of natural causes at the age of 75 in Paris, France.1827 (-) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies of lead poisoning at the age of 56 in Vienna, Austria.1849 (+) Automobile manufacterer Armand Peugeot is born in Hérimoncourt, Montbelliard, France.1892 (-) Poet and humanist Walt Walter Whitman aka the Father of Free Verse, dies of pleurisy of the left side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis at the age of 72 in Camden, New Jersey, USA.1904 (-) Robber and Murderer George Collins is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Illinois, USA.His neck doesn’t break and he’s slowly strangled to death before the eyes of the appalled executioner and jurors.1905 (-) Germaine Weber is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 1 in Paris, France.1908 (+) Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, is born in Altmünster, Austria.1911 (+) Writer Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Missouri, USA.1913 (-) Murderer Henry Clark is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Agra, India.1916 (-) Prison guard Andrew Turner is stabbed to death by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.1918 (-) Wachtmeester Emile Verfaille is executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.1925 (+) Composer Pierre Boulez is born in Montbrison, Loire, France.1929 (+) Triple murderer James W. Hutchins is born in North Carolina, USA.He was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.1931 (+) Actor Leonard Nimoy aka Mr. Spock, is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.1943 (+) Sole survivor of the Richard Speck-massacre in Chicago, Corazon Amurao is born in Durangao, Batangas, the Filippines.1944 (+) Musician Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.1953 (x) 84 die and 31 are mutilated in an attack by the Terrorist Movement Mau-Mau in Kikuya, Lari, Rift Valley, Kenya.1959 (-) Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler dies of pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia at the age of 70 in La Jolla, California, USA.1965 (x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is sentenced to death in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1973 (-) Actor Noel Coward dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in Blue Harbor, Jamaïca.1996 (-) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, dies of a seizure at the age of 59 in Waymart, hospital for the criminally insane, Pennsylvania, USA.1997 (x) Police find the bodies of 39 members of the Higher Source sect, who have comitted suicide by an overdose of phenobarbital and wodka in San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA.1998 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, is arrested in Paris, Metro Blanche, France.1999 (x) Serial Killer Fernando Hernandez Leyva aka Pancho Villa, is arrested on charges of kidnapping and assault. in Cuernavaca, Mexico.Once in custody, he confessed to killing more than 100 people.2003 (-) Murderer James Blake Colburn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Nature awakening in mesmerising detail in Borgerhout, Belgium.1762 (-) Murderer James Lowry aka The Captain, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.1801 (-) Writer and philosopher Novalis originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28 in Weißenfels, Germany.1867 (+) Composer Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Italy.1875 (+) Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA.1881 (+) Composer Bela Viktor Janos Bartok is born in Nagy-Szentmiklos, Hungary.1891 (+) Writer Filip De Pillecijn is born in Hamme-aan-de-Durme, East Flanders, Belgium.1905 (-) Murderer Lewis W. Lyons is executed by hanging in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1910 (-) Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.1911 (x) 147 Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, New York, USA.1918 (+) Presumed son of Adolf Hitler, Jean-Marie Loret originally Jean-Marie Lobjoie, is born in Seboncourt, Picardie, France.1919 (-) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide by distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Duisburg, Germany.1921 (+) Actress Simone Signoret originally Henriette Charlotte Kaminker, is born in Wiesbaden, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1923 (-) Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt dies of gangrene at the age of 78 in Paris, France.1935 (x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in New York, New York, USA.1940 (+) Actress Anita Bryant is born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA.1942 (+) Musician Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1946 (+) Serial Killer Gerard John Schaefer is born in Wisconsin, USA.1947 (+) Musician Elton John originally Reginald Dwight, is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.1957 (-) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, dies of rheumatic heart disease at the age of 54 in Hamburg, Germany.1969 (-) Maralynn Skelton is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 16 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.1975 (-) King Faisal Ibn Abd Al-Aziz is shot dead by his 28-year-old nephew Faisal Ibn Musa’id in Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia.1976 (-) Artist Josef Albers dies at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.1980 (-) Literary critic Roland Barthes succumbs to his injuries after being hit by a laundry van at the age of 64 in Paris, France.1983 (-) Teresa Watson aka Nicole, is hunted down and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 22 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.1984 (x) 35-year-old Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage, he surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police-snipers in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.1987 (x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gary M. Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1989 (-) Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in West Allis, 2357 South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.1990 (x) 87 Die in Happy Land Club fire in New York, New York, USA.The fire was deliberately started by the rejected lover of the cloakroom-attendant.1993 (-) Murderer Ramon Montoya is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Pedro Medina is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke, and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room.1999 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Charles Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is hit by a train at the age of 55 in Barnes, United Kingdom.2007 (x) 57-year-old RAF 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years in Aichach, Germany.She was the longest ever imprisoned RAF member.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Debris in the basement of Ballhaus Ost where I was more or less invited to make an installation with my True Crime Art, in Berlin, Germany.809 (-) Caliph of the Abbasid empire Harun Al-Rashid dies at the age of 46 in Tus, Mashhad, Iran.1455 (-) 208th Pope Nicholas V originally Tommaso Parentucelli, dies at the age of 57 in Rome, Italy.1832 (x) 26-year-old Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is beaten up and tarred and feathered by a group of men in Hiram, Ohio, USA.1873 (-) Serial Poisoner Mary-Ann Cotton originally Robson, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Durham Prison, United Kingdom.She poisoned over 25 people with arsenic, including her mother, 5 husbands and 10 of her 11 children.1874 (+) Magician Harry Houdini originally Erich Weiss, is born in Budapest, Hungary.1878 (x) Over 300 Die in HMS Eurydice fregate sinking in Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.1887 (+) Actor, filmmaker and womanizer Roscoe Conklin ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist, is born in Smith Center, Kansas, USA.1893 (+) Actress and second wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring Emmy Johanna Henny Göring originally Emma Sonneman aka Die Hohe Frau, is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.1897 (+) Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich is born in Dobrzynica, Ukraïne, Russia.1905 (-) Science-Fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne dies at the age of 77 in Paris, France.1914 (-) Murderer William Dorr is executed by Old Sparky in Charlestown, Massachussets, USA.1922 (-) Wife-murderer Edward Ernest Black is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Bodmin Prison, United Kingdom.1930 (+) Actor Steve McQueen is born in Beech Grove, Indiana, USA.1935 (x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, confesses to the 8-year-old murder of Bill Gaffney, of whose ears, nose and pieces of his face and belly he made into a stew in New York, New York, USA.He also roasted the boy’s behind with strips of bacon.1953 (-) Queen consort of the United Kingdom Victoria Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Mary of Teck dies of lung cancer at the age of 85 in London, Marlborough House, United Kingdom.1954 (+) Double murderer Kelsey Patterson is born in Texas, USA.1959 (-) Erika is attacked by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 23 in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Moersers Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.She survived.1968 (-) Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, dies at the age of 70 in Agimont, Belgium.1969 (x) 28-year-old Beatle John Winston Lennon and Artist Yoko Ono organise their ‘bed-in’ in Amsterdam, Hilton Hotel, the Netherlands.1976 (-) War leader Bernard Law Montgomery dies at the age of 88 in Alton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.1980 (-) Revolutionary Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is shot dead by the Right-Wing Orden whilst reading mass at the age of 62 in San Salvador, El Salvador.At the funeral on 30 March 1980 between 30 and 50 people were killed by gunfire.1983 (-) Liette Sauteret is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, in Amiens, France.1984 (-) Susan Logan is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Oklahoma City, Penn Square Mall, Oklahoma, USA.1988 (-) Richard Guerrero is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 22 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.1997 (x) Three trash bags with a female torso and belongings are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Cuesmes, Chemin de L'Inquiétude, Hainaut, Belgium.1998 (x) 13-year-old Michell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden shoot 4 pupils and a teacher to death and injure 10 more in the Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.1999 (-) Nazi Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink originally Gertrud Emma Treusch, dies at the age of 97 in Bebenshausen, Germany.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The young ones at the annual Easter family event in Borgerhout, Belgium.1555 (-) 221st Pope Julius III originally Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Italy.1842 (-) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, dies of a seizure at the age of 59 in Paris, France.1860 (-) Poisoner Ann Bilansky is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA.She was the first person and only woman hanged by the State of Minnesota.1877 (-) The Mountain Meadows Massacre Perpetrator, John Doyle Lee is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 64 in Mountain Meadows, Utah, USA.1893 (+) Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India, is born in Kalangal, India.1900 (+) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm is born in Frankfurt, Germany.1904 (+) Actress Joan Crawford originally Lucille Fay LeSueur, is born in San Antonio, Texas, USA.1910 (+) Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa is born in Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan.1912 (+) Scientist and space-craft-engineer Wernher Von Braun is born in Wirsitz, Poland.1933 (+) Psychologist Philip George Zimbardo known for the Stanford Experiment, is born in New York City, New York, USA.1937 (-) Philantropist and industrialist John Davison Rockefeller dies at the age of 97 in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA.1941 (+) Minimal composer Michael Laurence Edward Nyman is born in Stratford, United Kingdom.1948 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Irene Richardson is born in Leeds, United Kingdom.1962 (-) Murderer Vincent Ciucci is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.1964 (-) Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, dies of a stroke at the age of 59 in Hollywood, California, USA.1965 (x) 47-year-old Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is called out as secretary-general in Bukarest, Romania.1971 (-) Writer Simon Vestdijk dies at the age of 72 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1976 (x) Actor Sjimotjiro Maeno crashes into the house of Lockheed-corrupter Yoshio Kodama in a self-styled kamikaze-act with his private plane in Tokio, Japan.1977 (-) Barbara Young is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Doncaster, United Kingdom.1978 (-) Karen Schilt is sexually tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 22 in New York, Third Avenue Hotel, New York, USA.She was found alive in the Ledgewood Terrace Apartments parking lot.1983 (-) The first man with an artificial heart, Barney Clark dies of general insufficiency at the age of 62 in Utah, USA.1984 (-) Terry Walden is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 24 in Beaumont, USA.1985 (x) Over 400 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.1987 (-) Agnes Adams is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1993 (-) Murderer Carlos Santana is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1994 (x) 75 Die in Aeroflot Flight 593 Airbus crash in Siberia, Russia.The pilot had given the controls of the plane to his 15-year-old son for amusement.1997 (x) In a burned-out house the bodies of 5 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning in Saint Casimir, Quebec, Canada.1998 (-) Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Starke, Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.1999 (x) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is sentenced to death for poisoning five Hong Kong women and stealing HK$1.2 million in Bejing, China.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Lonely loafs of bread in an automatic vendor machine in Antwerpen, Belgium.1599 (+) Painter Sir Anthony van Dyck is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1832 (-) Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Weimar, Germany.1857 (+) 13th President of the Third Republic and 14th President of France Paul Joseph Athanase Doumer is born in Aurillac, France.1913 (+) Actor Karl Malden originally Malden Sekulovich, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1923 (+) Actor Marcel Marceau is born in Strasbourg, France.1931 (+) Actor William Shatner aka Captain Jim Kirk, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.1936 (+) Singer-songwriter and whistling talent Roger Whittaker is born in Nairobi, Kenya.1937 (+) Composer Angelo Badalamenti is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.1941 (+) Actor Bruno Ganz is born in Zurich, Switzerland.1942 (-) Jean-Pierre Van Beveren is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 42 in Paris, France.1943 (x) 195 inhabitants including 75 children are burned alive or gunned down by German 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion in Khatyn, Belarus.1963 (-) Multiple Murderer Charles Wood is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1969 (-) Writer Gerhart Fritsch dies at the age of 45 in Vienna, Austria.1970 (-) Kathleen Johns is attacked by Zodiac in Bakersfield, California, USA.She survived.1978 (-) Jeffrey Rignall is sodomised and battered to death by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 27 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1979 (-) Sir Richard Sykes British Ambassador, is shot dead by the IRA at the age of 58 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.Footman Karel Straub was also killed, both being shot in the head as they left the ambassador's residence for the short trip to the embassy.1981 (x) 24-year-old IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.1982 (-) Jay Reynolds is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 26 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.1983 (-) Veronique Dubois is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 18 in Amiens, France.1989 (-) Murderer Leon Ruthe King is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1994 (-) Cartoonist and creator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz dies of heart failure at the age of 94 in Burbank, California, USA.1997 (x) State policeman Olivier Motte discovers eight trash bags with female torsos, arms and legs, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Cuesmes, Rue Emile Vandervelde, Hainaut, Belgium.2006 (-) Murderer Robert Madrid Jr. Salazar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

A mountain reservoir during an amateur Club Moral mountaineering expedition in Sierre, Switzerland.1685 (+) Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.1839 (+) Composer Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky is born in Karewo, Pskow, Russia.1901 (-) Wife-murderer John Herbert Bennet is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.1909 (+) Gangster Clyde Chestnut Barker is born in Teleco, Texas, USA.1922 (+) Filmmaker Russel Albion Meyer aka King of the Nudies, is born in Oakland, California, USA.1926 (+) Filmmaker André Delvaux is born in Heverlee, Brabant, Belgium.1938 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Arnett Booth is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.1943 (+) Founder of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall is born in Shillingford, Radcliffe Maternity Home, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.1944 (x) 41-year-old Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl marries Peter Jacob in Germany.1946 (+) Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff aka The Broomstick Murderer, is born in Rosebud, Texas, USA.1969 (-) Jane Mixer is shot dead by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Denton Cemetary, Michigan, USA.1973 (-) Janine Ligotino is beaten and stabbed by Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, at the age of 19 in Gainesville, Florida, USA.1975 (-) Anthony Crean is stabbed to death and mutilated by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.1976 (-) Vladimir Sabich aka Spider, is shot dead by Claudine Longet at the age of 30 in Aspen, Colorado, USA.1979 (x) 33-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Send Me Your Money" on KPFK Radio in Los Angeles, California, USA.1982 (+) Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Joshua Denton Watson is born in Texas, USA.1986 (x) ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by 33-year-old frustrated artist G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands.1991 (-) Guitar manufacterer Leo Clarence Leonidas Fender dies at the age of 81 in Fullerton, California, USA.2002 (x) 51-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, goes on a trip on the North Sea and disappears in Hartlepool, Seaton Carew, United Kingdom.On 1 dec 2007 he walked into a London police station and claimed loss of memory.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

A sponsored warning sign near a small lake in Sierre, Switzerland.1760 (x) The "Great Fire" destroys 349 buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.1828 (+) Writer Hendrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Vestfold, Norway.1879 (+) IRA-member Terence Joseph MacSwiney is born in Cork, Ireland.1895 (+) Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham is born in Nürnberg, Germany.1899 (-) Murderess Martha Place is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.She was the first woman to be executed by The Electric Chair.1923 (-) Wilhelm Schulze is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.1927 (-) Albert Snyder is murdered by Ruth Snyder aka The Granite Woman, in the USA.She committed the crime to please her lover Judd Gray.1929 (-) Murderer John Clark is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1933 (-) Assassin Joseph Zangara is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Raiford, Florida, USA.1940 (+) Serial Killer Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.1942 (-) Triple murderer John Anthony Soto is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 17 in Oregon, USA.1946 (x) 185 Die in train derailment in Aracuju, Brazil.1957 (+) Actor and filmmaker Spike Shelton Jackson Lee is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.1958 (+) Actress Holly Hunter is born in Conyers, Georgia, USA.1969 (x) 28-year-old Beatle John Winston Lennon marries artist Yoko Ono in Gibraltar, Spain.1974 (x) 26-year-old Psychotic Ian Ball attacks Princess Anne and Mark Philips in a kidnap-attempt to gain ransom for curing his mental illness in London, United Kingdom.1980 (-) Harry Turner is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 14 in Hollywood, California, USA.1983 (-) Richard Wayne is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 21 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.1984 (-) Unidentified girl is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 19 in Bainbridge, Glen Oaks Motel, Georgia, USA.1995 (x) 12 Die and thousands are paralysed by a Sarin-gas-attack on one of the busiest metro-lines by Aum Shinrikyo in Tokio, Japan.1996 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux is released from prison in Belgium.While he was in prison 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starved to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle.2003 (-) Murderer Keith Bernard Clay is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Minister of Social Affairs Frank Vandenbroucke explaining the Social Statute of the Artist to a crowd of artists, organisers and critics in Gent, Belgium.1286 (-) King of Scotland Alexander III dies at the age of 44 in Pettycur, Kinghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol, he was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone everyone advised him to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching, he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck, having been thrown off his horse.1721 (-) 243rd Pope Clementius XI originally Giovanni Francesco Albani, dies at the age of 71 in Urbino, Italy.1742 (+) Revolutionary Leader Túpac Amaru II originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui, is born in Tinta, Cusco, Peru.1813 (+) Explorer David Livingstone is born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.1831 (x) Bank Robber Edward Smith and an accomplice break into the City Bank in what is thought to be the first U.S. bank robbery in New York, New York, USA.They stole $228,000 in coin and currency, of which only $175,000 was ever recovered.1871 (+) Lover of Crown Prince Rudolf Mary Vetsera is born in Vienna, Austria.1873 (+) Composer Max Reger is born in Brand, Germany.1888 (+) Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1901 (-) George Henry Parker is executed by hanging.1905 (+) Nazi-architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer is born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany.1906 (+) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.1921 (+) Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper is born in Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom.1933 (+) Writer Philip Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.1936 (+) Actress Ursula Andress is born in Bern, Switzerland.1944 (+) Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is born in Jerusalem, Israël.1945 (+) Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is born in Long Beach, California, USA.1950 (-) Creator of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Encino, California, USA.1968 (-) Filmmaker Theodor Carl Dreyer dies at the age of 79 in Copenhagen, Denmark.1971 (-) Lutgarde Van Der Wilt is raped, strangled and mutilated by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 19 in Bonheiden, Wielewaalreservaat Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.1993 (-) Murderer Fred Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maryland, USA.1997 (-) Artist Willem De Kooning dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 92 in Long Island, New York, USA.2001 (x) Start of the trial against 38-year-old Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.2005 (x) Start of the trial against 65-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles, California, USA.2008 (-) Writer and Space Odysseyist Arthur C. Charles Clarke dies of respiratory failure at the age of 90 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

A piece of night jungle in our livingroom in Borgerhout, Belgium.1314 (-) 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay is executed by burning at the stake in Paris, in front of the Notre Dame, France.1789 (-) Christian Bowman is the last man to be burned on the stake in the USA.1837 (+) 22nd and 24th president of the USA Grover Stephen Cleveland is born in Caldwell, New Jersey, USA.1842 (+) Poet Stéphane Mallarmé is born in Paris, France.1844 (+) Composer Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimsky-Korsakov is born in Tichwin, Russia.1858 (+) Scientist and engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel is born in Paris, France.1865 (-) Mary Pritchard is poisoned by Dr. Edward Pritchard in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1868 (+) Psychologist Wilhelm Stekel is born in Bujon, Bukovina, Romania.1883 (+) Architect of the Bauhaus Walter Gropius is born in Berlin, Germany.1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Robert Witzel is born in Hannover, Germany.1910 (+) Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1915 (-) Murderer Arthur Rottman aka The Ruahine Axe Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Wellington, Terrace Gaol, New Zealand.1921 (x) Over 1000 Die in Hong Kong steamer shipwreck in Swatow, China.1928 (-) Poet Paul Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 32 in Miavoye-Anthée, Belgium.1932 (+) Writer John Updike is born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA.1937 (x) 296 Die in New London School explosion in New London, Texas, USA.In 1961, 41-year-old William Estel Benson is arrested for theft and confesses he unscrewed some gaspipes at the time.1941 (+) Musician Wilson Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama, USA.1946 (x) Start of the trial against 49-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.1947 (-) Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sydney Sinclair, is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1951 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.1957 (x) Start of the trial against 58-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1959 (x) Hawaï is called out as 50th of the United States in the USA.1965 (x) Astronaut Alexei Leonov is the first man to walk from his Voschod Spacecraft in Space.1980 (-) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm dies at the age of 80 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.1982 (x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is committed to the Mental Health Institute in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, USA.Posing as Richard Clark, he attempted to abduct Todd Peers.1983 (x) 46-year-old Serial Poisoner Arnfinn Nesset is sentenced to 21 years in prison for poisoning at east 22 elderly people with the muscle relaxing drug Curacit in Trondheim, Norway.1984 (-) Terry Ferguson is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 21 in Indian Harbour, Merrit Square Shopping Mall, Florida, USA.1987 (-) Deborah Dudley is electrocuted by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1996 (x) 162 Die in nightclub fire in Quezon City, the Philippines.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Mauro Pawlowski and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven in the Trans-Switzerland-Express on our way for a Club Moral music performance at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.1834 (+) Scientist and mechanic Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler is born in Schorndorf, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1853 (-) Physicist Johann Christian Andreas Doppler dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 49 in Venice, Italy.1906 (-) Black thief William Carr lynched by hanging in Placquemine, Louisiana, USA.1907 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Erich Devries is born in Hannover, Germany.1919 (+) Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole originally Nathaniel Adams Coles, is born in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.1922 (-) Keimes is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.1933 (-) Wife-murderer Charles Burke commits suicide by slashing his wrists in Covington, Kentucky, USA.He was carrying the body of his wife, cut to pieces and packed in jars, in his car during a routine police-check.1938 (+) Choreographer Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev is born in Irkutsk, Russia.1942 (+) Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is born in Chicago, Edgewater Hospital, Illinois, USA.1960 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is arrested as ‘The Measuring Man’ in Boston, Massachussets, USA.1965 (-) Lidia N. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Bedzin, Poland.1976 (-) Filmmaker Luchino Visconti di Modrone dies of a stroke at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.1977 (-) Lebanese Statesman Kamal Jumblatt is assassinated by persons unknown at the age of 59 in Lebanon.Prime suspects include the pro-Syrian faction of the Lebanese Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), in collaboration with the Ba'ath Party.1982 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, has his life-sentence quashed, but remains in prison awaiting a new trial in Beauvais, France.1985 (-) Dayle Okazaki is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 34 in Los Angeles, Rosemead and Monterey Park, California, USA.1988 (x) 143 Die in Columbian Airlines Avianca Flight 410 Boeing 727 crash in Cúcuta, Colombia.1995 (-) Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 61 in Slough, Wexham Park hospital, United Kingdom.1999 (-) Serial Killer and member of the Ripper Crew or Chicago Rippers Andrew Kokoraleis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Tamms, Illinois, USA.2000 (x) Over 800 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in an orchestrated suicide with sulfuric acid in an explosion and subsequent fire in Kanangu, Uganda.More people were found poisoned and stabbed to death in the aftermath of their 'apocalypse'.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

One of thirteen Aldi bags filled with dirt from my "Diggin' for Gordon" project that I left behind during openings in art galleries such as Jan De Cock's exhibition at Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium.1751 (+) 3rd president of the USA James Madison is born in Port Conway, King George County, Virginia, USA.1771 (+) Artist Antoine-Jean Gros is born in Paris, France.1787 (+) Physicist Georg Simon Ohm is born in Erlangen, Germany.1898 (-) Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25 in Menton, France.1911 (+) Nazi-doctor Josef Mengele aka The White Angel, is born in Günzborg, Bavaria, Germany.1920 (+) Adolf Hitler’s private secretary Traudl Junge originally Gertraud Humps, is born in München, Bavaria, Germany.1926 (+) Actor Jerry Lewis originally Joseph Levitch, is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.1927 (+) Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to die during a space mission Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov is born in Moscow, USSR.1930 (-) Marianna Dal S. is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1949 (+) RAF 2nd Generation member Christine Dümlein is born in Bamberg, Germany.1955 (-) Artist Nicolas de Staël commits suicide by depression at the age of 41 in Antibes, France.He jumped from his studio terrace on the eleventh floor.1956 (-) Cop Killer Robert Carpenter is executed by Old Sparky in Joliet State Prison, Illinois, USA.1957 (-) Artist Constantin Brancusi dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.1962 (x) 107 Die in Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation crash in the West Pacific.1963 (+) Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, Robert Piest is born in Illinois, USA.1965 (-) Protester Alice Herz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 82 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.She was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam. Rescued by passers-by she died ten days later in the hospital.1968 (x) A US military division under command of 24-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley massacres all the villagers in My Lai, Vietnam.1969 (x) 154 Die in DC-9 crash in La Coriba, Venezuela.1978 (x) 61-year-old Politician Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Rome, Via Fani, Italy.His 5 body-guards are shot dead.1984 (-) Triple murderer James W. Hutchins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.He was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.1990 (+) Murder victim James Patrick Bulger is born in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Writing on a wooden stage in AMVK's exhibition "Über das Ich" at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin, Germany.45bc (-) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome, Italy.1767 (+) 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory, is born in New Lancaster, Waxhaws District, South Carolina, USA.1820 (x) Maine becomes the 23rd State in Maine, USA.1907 (+) Actress Zarah Leander originally Zarah Stina Hedberg, is born in Karlstad, Sweden.1923 (x) 52-year-old Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is struck by a third stroke in Moscow, Russia.1932 (-) Murderer William Laroque is executed by hanging in L’Original, Canada.1935 (+) Televangelism pioneer Jimmy Lee Swaggart is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA.1937 (-) Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 46 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.1943 (+) Filmmaker David Paul Cronenberg aka Dave Deprave aka The Baron of Blood, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.1957 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Burton W. Abbott is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 25 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.1975 (-) Billionaire Aristoteles Sokratis Onassis dies of pneumonia at the age of 69 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.1977 (-) Jon Prestidge is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 20 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1981 (x) 31-year-old IRA-member Francis Hughes originally Proinsias O hAodha, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.1984 (-) Colleen Orsborn is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 15 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.1986 (x) Over 100 Die in New World Hotel collapse in Singapore.1987 (-) Dorothy Blackburn aka Dotsie, is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 27 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.1988 (-) Murderer Willie Jasper Darden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Starke, Florida, USA.1993 (x) 53-year-old Police-chief Mustafa Tabit is sentenced to death in Casablanca, Morocco.He raped and tortured hundreds of women during his service.1998 (-) Paediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock dies of cancer at the age of 94 in La Jolla, California, USA.2000 (-) Double murderer Patrick Gene Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.2006 (-) Double murderer Tommie Collins Hughes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

A billboard next to abandoned and derelict buildings I came across when I decided to bike all the way along Landsberger Allee, the longest street in Berlin, Germany.1681 (+) Composer Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg, Germany.1853 (+) Artist Ferdinand Hodler is born in Bern, Switzerland.1879 (+) Scientist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1883 (-) Economist Karl Marx dies of pleurisy at the age of 64 in London, United Kingdom.1904 (-) Psychotic Murderer Thomas Tobin is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1908 (+) Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France.1914 (+) First Lady of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Qing originally Li Shuméng aka Madame Mao, is born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China.1923 (+) Photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus is born in New York, New York, USA.1932 (-) Photography pioneer George Eastman commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 77 in Rochester, New York, USA.He left a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?"1933 (+) Actor Michael Caine is born in London, United Kingdom.1951 (-) Murderer Jim Q.A. Patterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.1963 (-) Murderer Manuel E. Silvas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in Florence, State Prison, Arizona, USA.1972 (-) Anarchist editor and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli dies in in the bombing of an electricity-line at the age of 45 in Milan, Italy.1972 (x) 112 Die in Danish charter crash in Arabia.1979 (x) 200 Die in Hawker Siddeley Trident crash into a factory in Beijing, China.1980 (-) Ronald Gatlin is sodomised and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Van Nuys, California, USA.1980 (x) 87 Die in plane crash in Warsaw, Poland.On board were a 14-man American boxing team.1984 (-) Double Murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.He remained conscious and in great pain for about 10 minutes.1989 (-) Boxer David Thio dies in the ring after being punched in a coma by Terence Ali during the light-weight championship at the age of 22 in Lyon, France.1997 (-) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman dies of a heart attack at the age of 89 in London, United Kingdom.2000 (-) Murderer Ponchai “Kamau” Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Muslim prisoner Abd al-Rahman Narzullaev dies in custody under suspicious circumstances after participating in a hunger strike at the age of 44 in Uzbekistan.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

A good pull during the Gooseriding championship in Berendrecht, Belgium.1615 (+) 242nd Pope Innocentus XII originally Antonio Pignatelli, is born in Spinazzola, Italy.1898 (+) Filmmaker Henry Hathaway originally Henri Leonard de Fiennes, is born in Sacramento, California, USA.1901 (-) Suspected Murderer John Henderson is lynched by burning at the stake in Corsicana, Texas, USA.1901 (-) 23rd president of the USA Benjamin Harrison dies of influenza at the age of 67 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.1911 (+) Founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Lafayette Ronald Hubbard is born in Tilden, Nebraska, USA.1928 (x) Over 450 Die in St. Francis Dam collapse in Santa Paula, California, USA.1938 (-) Lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Seward Darrow dies at the age of 80 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1939 (+) Musician Neil Sedaka is born in New York, New York, USA.1940 (-) Governor of Punjab Michael O’Dwyer is shot dead by Udham Singh aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, at the age of 76 in London, Caxton Hall, United Kingdom."I did it because I had a grudge against him. He deserved it. He was the real culprit. He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I have crushed him."1942 (-) Hubert Tracey is shot dead by Charles Lovett at the age of 29 in Abingdon, Virginia, USA.Lovett had just deserted with James Edward Testerman.1958 (x) 53-year-old Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is released from prison in Illinois, USA.1964 (-) Kitty Catherine Susan Genovese is raped and stabbed to death in two separate attacks spanning at least half an hour by Winston Moseley outside her apartment at the age of 28 in New York, Kew Gardens, New York, USA.Most of her neighbours heard or even watched without any reaction.1970 (-) Marie Anstey is abducted and presumably killed by Zodiac in Vallejo, Coronado Inn, California, USA.1971 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a letter to the Los Angeles Times in Pleasanton, California, USA.1975 (x) Start of the first trial against 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, USA.1980 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced to death for the murder of 33 boys in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1983 (-) Cyclist Louis Bobet aka Louison aka Zonzon, dies of cancer at the age of 58 in Quiberon, Brittany, France.1985 (-) Triple Murderer Stephen Peter Morin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.He had to have probed both arms and legs with needles for 45 minutes before they found the vein.1988 (-) Hardcore porn actor John Curtis Holmes aka Johnny Wadd, dies of cardiorespiratory arrest and encephalitis due to AIDS at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California, USA.He performed in hundreds of porn-movies and claimed to have had sex with an estimated 14.000 women. Holmes' main asset in the porn business was his exceptionally large penis. However, no definitive measurement, or documentation thereof, exists, leaving its exact length in dispute.1990 (-) Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commits suicide by depression at the age of 86 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1996 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Han Zhenying is arrested after a killing spree in which he killed 63 people in 13 provinces since he was 14 years old in Nanyang County, Hunan, China.1996 (-) Mass Murderer Thomas Watt Hamilton commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 15 5 and 6-year-old children and a teacher in a school at the age of 43 in Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom.12 other children were wounded.1996 (-) Filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski dies during open-heart surgery following a heart attack at the age of 54 in Warsaw, Poland.1998 (x) 46-year-old RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock is released from the Sozialtherapeutische Anstalt Bergedorf in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.2001 (-) Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, dies of heart failure at the age of 64 in Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Musician Marc Moreland dies of complications following a liver transplant at the age of 44 in Paris, France.He was the founder of 'Wall of Voodoo'.

Friday, March 12, 2010

One of two rows of wash basins in a Cold War atomic shelter capable of holding about 3000 people in former West-Berlin, Kurfürstendamm, Germany.1507 (-) Lord, cardinal and Duke of Valentinois Cesare Borgia is stripped naked and left to die of thirst at the age of 31 in Viana, Italy.1831 (+) Automobile Pioneer Clement Studebaker is born in Pinetown, Pennsylvania, USA.1863 (+) Eccentric and writer Gabriele D’Annunzio aka Principe di Montenevoso aka The High Priest of Erotica, is born in Pescara, Italy.1889 (+) Choreographer Vaslav Nijinski is born in Kiev, Russia.1909 (-) Murderer Thomas Meade is executed by hanging in Leeds, United Kingdom.1914 (+) Writer John Symonds is born in Battersea, London, United Kingdom.1922 (+) Writer Jack Kerouac is born in Lowell, Massachussets, USA.1925 (-) Revolutionary Leader Yat-sen Sun aka Sun Zhongshan aka Sun Deming, dies of liver cancer at the age of 58 in Beijing, China.1925 (+) Cyclist Louis Bobet aka Louison aka Zonzon, is born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Brittany, France.1930 (x) 60-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, leads a 200-mile march in defiance of British opposition and the Salt Tax in Sabarmati Ashram, India.1932 (-) Swedish ‘Lucifer-king’ Ivan Kreuger commits suicide by gunshots at the age of 52 in Paris, France.He couldn't stand the loss of face after detection of fraud in his accountancy.1937 (+) Murderess Betty Lou Beets is born in Texas, USA.1940 (+) Musician Al Jarreau is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1945 (+) Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.1946 (+) Actress Liza Minelli is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1955 (-) Musician Charlie Charles Jr. Parker aka “Bird”, dies of lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer at the age of 34 in New York City, Stanhope Hotel, New York, USA.1963 (+) Serial Killer Christine Laverne Slaughter Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, is born in Panhandle, Florida, USA.1974 (-) Donna Manson is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 19 in Olympia, Evergreen Campus, Washington, USA.1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, disappears after a short leave from prison in Valence, France.He is apprehended little time later.1982 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to die for 10 murders throughout Los Angeles County in California, USA.1986 (-) Murderer Charles William Bass is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1986 (-) Murderer Roger De Garmo aka Animal, is executed by Old Sparky in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1988 (x) 72 Die in stampede in a thunderstorm during a soccer-game in Kathmandu, Nepal.1993 (x) 300 Die in several bomb attacks in Bombay, India.1997 (-) Murderer John Barfield is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Composer Yehudi Menuhin dies of bronchitis at the age of 82 in Berlin, Germany.2001 (-) Writer Robert Ludlum dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Naples, Florida, USA.2008 (-) Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald dies of respiratory and kidney failure at the age of 67 in Trenton, St. Francis Medical Center, New Jersey, USA.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

An American car on the autobahn close to the former East-West border crossing in Marienborn, Germany.1544 (+) Poet Torquato Tasso is born in Sorrento, Italy.1864 (x) 270 Die in Dale Dyke Dam flood in Sheffield, United Kingdom.1921 (+) Composer Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla aka El Gran, is born in Mar del Plata, Argentina.1931 (+) Media Mogul Rupert Keith Murdoch is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1931 (-) Filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau dies in an automobile accident at the age of 42 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.1935 (x) Start of the trial against 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, in West Plains, Westchester Supreme Court, New York, USA.1942 (-) Murderer Harold Trevor is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1944 (x) Discovery of human remains from at least 20 bodies in the basement of 47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, when the fire-brigade is called in because of the huge rise of black smoke coming from the chimney in Paris, 21 Rue Le Sueur, France.1946 (x) 45-year-old Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is arrested in Germany.1947 (-) Swindler who tried to sell the Eiffel Tower twice, Victor Lustig aka The Count, dies of pneumonia at the age of 57 in Springfield, Medical Centre for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, USA.1955 (-) Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in London, United Kingdom.1960 (-) Murderer Robert Dwight Fenton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1963 (-) Plotter of the assassination of president De Gaulle, Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 35 in Ivry-sur-Seine, France.1966 (x) 45-year-old Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for the possession and transportation of marihuana in California, USA.1969 (x) Last official execution by the Guillotine in Paris, France.1970 (-) Writer Erle Stanley Gardner dies at the age of 80 in Temecula, California, USA.1977 (x) 43-year-old Filmmaker Roman Raymond Polanski is arrested and charged with furnishing Quaaludes to a minor, child-molesting, unlawful sexual intercourse, rape by the use of drugs, oral copulation and sodomy of 13-year-old Samantha Geirner in Los Angeles, California, USA.1978 (-) musician Claude François aka Clo-Clo, dies of electrocution at the age of 39 in Paris, #46 Boulevard Exelmans, France.Claude was at his Paris apartment at #46 Boulevard Exelmans, with an American girlfriend named Kathleen, and a French secretary. In the afternoon he took a shower in preparation for a trip to the recording studio. After finishing his shower, he noticed that the light bulb in the socket hanging over the shower was burned out. With his feet in the water, he reached up to change it, and was instantly electrocuted. Efforts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at 3:30pm.1998 (-) Murderer Jerry Lee Hogue is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Economist James Tobin known from the Tobin Tax, dies at the age of 84 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Bobby Glen Cook is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (x) 191 Die in commuter train nº 17305 bomb explosion in Madrid, Atocha Station, Spain.Another 1800 people are injured. The attack was carried out by an al-Qaeda inspired terrorist cell.2009 (-) Mass Murderer Tim Kretschmer commits suicide by a shot in the head during a shootout with the police at the age of 17 in Winnenden, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.Before he killed 16 people in a shooting spree at the the Albertville-Realschule.